ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Three weeks ago I had completed the stonework to face my side of the bank between us and our neighbours. The bank however, is only 70cm high on our side so provided no privacy now that the hedge on top had been removed. Last year the next neighbour along had replaced the bank between us…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 3 – 9/11/2020
At the end of a week of gardening where I barely engaged with plants at all, I'm going to do six plants. I just looked back to last week's six and I'd barely started on my fence. Somehow I've pressed on through rain and shine and it's now finished. I've tidied up and turned my…
This sort of weather makes it hard to get enthusiastic about anything, let alone gardening. I wanted to crack on with my fence this week but it's a mud bath out there so progress has been slow. There has been some though. I also sowed seed of a couple of things. Four more and I…
It's a dull old day, drizzle, heavy cloud cover. Getting late in the year too, so the sun isn't very strong even when it's shining. On a positive note, my Camellia sasanqua 'Navajo' is starting to flower; I'd better get some pictures of it, I only have 171 already, I must need some more. In…
I just spent the last hour blasting mealy bugs off cacti, at which point the skies opened and I ran for cover. Such a glamorous life. I was expecting to be fencing this weekend, the kind with bits of wood, not swords. Unfortunately only part of what I'd ordered was delivered, so now the rest…
Three dumpy bags of local quarry stone were carefully lowered onto our neighbour's parking area on Friday. I set to work straight away, wheeling it in my trusty wheelbarrow up to the top end of the garden. Two tonnes were shifted on Friday afternoon, the remaining tonne on Saturday morning. Our estate was built 40…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 2 – 19/10/2020
There will be only one thing happening in my garden this saturday and it involves stone. Lots of stone. You won't get to see it in Saturday fsixes, it's such fun I'll do a post about it separately.I got the sheet onto my polytunnel on thursday, so that's now ready to get tested by next…
It was 29th September that I showed the sheet disappearing from the polytunnel that has adorned the top corner of our garden since 2014. I knew at the time that it wasn't going to get any easier. The tunnel came down very easily, was transported up to my allotment and erected without incident. I had…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 1 – 11/10/2020
Unless it's tipping down, I shall be out in the garden taking the big project sparked by the removal of my tunnel forward. Hacking out the remains of the hedge mainly. I'm working on a different post about that, so I'll say no more here. I might plant a few bulbs too but I'd better…
Around this time last year I did a post on Begonias. It was getting to the end of a growing season during which I'd been experimenting further with planting out some supposedly hardy begonias as well as some that I knew would need lifting again before the winter. I have repeated and extended my experimentation…
